the long run (one to five years) higher food prices reduce poverty and inequality. The magnitudes of these effects vary …Standard microeconomic methods consistently suggest that, in the short run, higher food prices increase poverty in … systematically test the relationship between changes in domestic food prices and changes in poverty. We find robust evidence that in …

as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …

growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania …-poor growth than do sugarcane-based systems. However, if smallholder yields can be improved rather than expanding cultivated land …

development (R&D) investment across developing regions (1) to maximize agricultural growth or (2) to maximize poverty reduction at … gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and … different values of R&D and poverty elasticities on the optimal allocation of R&D investment across regions. Our simulation …

consistent economic framework is presented to help close this information gap and to better understand growth and poverty … growth. This growth decline hits households hard and compounds the poverty effects of the food crisis. Model results indicate …Yemen is an oil-exporting and food-importing country on the Arabian Peninsula with persistently high levels of poverty …

, employment and poverty. Tariff reduction under CAFTA adds about .2% to the growth rate of output up to 2020. Liberalizing the … rules of origin for maquila has a bigger positive effect on growth and poverty mainly because it raises the demand for … capital formation. This raises the growth rate of output by over 1% per year and lowers poverty incidence in 2020 by over 25 …

growth and a third of the poverty caused by the pandemic, the fiscal burden of treatment will constrain diversification, thus …"Despite its strong growth record, Botswana faces two prominent development challenges: the onslaught of HIV/AIDS and … the slowdown in diamond mining. This study estimates the growth and distributional impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and …

technical change. However, the impacts on income poverty are small, and inequality is reduced by HIV/AIDS. This is because high … unemployment among low-income households minimizes the economic costs of increased mortality. In contrast, slower economic growth … economic growth achieved through addressing HIV/AIDS is sufficient to offset the population pressure this move will place on …

growth, employment and poverty but the effect is small. What really matters for Honduras is the assembly (maquila) industry … in foreign investment in response to CAFTA has an even larger impact on growth, employment and poverty. These simulations … impact on growth and poverty than tariff reductions alone." from Authors' Abstract …

sustainable economic development. Yemen, as the country with the lowest per capita income in the group of countries with a high … this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …, especially for the poor. Outcomes of alternative reform scenarios range from an increase in poverty of 2 to 6 percentage points …